Tracks 1-6: recorded by Peter Kennedy for the BBC, 1952;
Tracks 7-11: recorded by Fred Hamer, 1959;
Tracks 12-16: recorded by Mike Yates, 1965;
Tracks 17-19: recorded by Fred Hamer, 1966;
Tracks 20-23: from Songs of a Shropshire Farm Worker (12T150, 1966), recorded by Bill Leader and Mike Yates

Tracks 1-4: from When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin (12TS233, 1974), recorded by Tony Foxwirthy;
Tracks 4-9: recorded by Dave Bryant at the Junction Arms, Groombridge, Kent, 1978/79;
Tracks 10-12: recorded by Sybil Clarke, 1982, courtesy of the EFDSS;
Tracks 13-21: from In Course of Time (VWML 006, 1991), recorded by Ian Russell